Awards, Honors, Fellowships (2018-2019)

Please join us in congratulating these students, faculty, and staff members for their contributions and successes. These awards, honors, and fellowships were announced July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019.

If you know of others for the current year, send an e-mail to gsenews@berkeley.edu.

Travis J. Bristol, Assistant Professor
Ford Foundation/NAEd Post Doctoral Fellowship
Emerging Scholar Award from the Comparative and International Education Society, African Diaspora SIG
Janelle T. Scott, Professor
Named the Robert C. and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities

Jenny Zhang, PhD student
AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship Travel Award

Amelia Farid, PhD student
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, "Relations between Disciplinary Practices and Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics: Leveraging Definitional Practices to Support Students’ Fraction Understanding"

Diana Casanova, PhD student
PLUS Fellow, Center for Cities + Schools

Darryl Diptee, PhD student
2nd place, Big Ideas contest for leading the Sonic Eyewear Project, from the Blum Center for Developing Economies
Devanshi Unadkat, PhD student
Outstanding GSI in the GSE, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley
Nicole Rangel, PhD student
AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship Travel Award
David M. Howard Memorial Prize in American Politics from the Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley
Frank C. Worrell, Professor

Palmarium Award in Gifted Education from the Gifted Education Conference, Morgridge College of Education

Charles Underwood, Director, UCLinks
Dr. Winston C. Doby Impact Award, UC Office of the President
Dinorah Sánchez Loza, PhD student
Ford Dissertation Fellowship, "Educating the Right: ‘Neutral’ Pedagogy and the (Re)Production of Settler Politics in US Government Classrooms in Ohio"

Adrienne Herd, staff
Expanded Learning Leadership Award from the Calif. Dept. of Education, California Expanded Learning division

Virgina Flood, PhD student
Outstanding GSI in the GSE, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley
Marcia Linn, Professor
Named the Evelyn Lois Corey Chair in Education
National Science Foundation grant, "Supporting Teachers in Responsive Instruction for Developing Expertise in Science (STRIDES)"
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation grant, "Personalizing Open Web-based Educational Resources (POWER)"

Mark Wilson, Professor
E.F. Lindquist Award from AERA and The American College Testing Program (ACT)

Thomas M. Philip, Associate Professor
Mid-career Award (AERA, Division K)
Mahasan Offutt-Chaney, PhD student
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, Discipline for the “Educationally Deprived”: ESEA and the Punitive Function of Federal Education Policy 1965-1998
Cherise McBride, PhD student
Lyman Fellow in New Media from the Berkeley Center for New Media
Tiffani Johnson, PhD student
Outstanding GSI in the GSE, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley

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Frances Amos, PhD student
Outstanding GSI in the GSE, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley
Nicholas Sim, PhD student
Outstanding GSI in the GSE, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley